Trying to stay ahead

I got my first assignment back and got 93% on it. Not bad but not exactly what I was hoping for. I've always been a bit of a perfectionist, especially when it comes to math. I feel that the is there and I should be able to figure it out.

This instructor seems way better than my last one. When he gave me back my assignment, he had explained why I was wrong on certain questions and was very fair in his grading. My previous one I had to fight with every time to get an explanation or a correction. I feel like I actually learned from this assignment.

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I needed a financial calculator for an upcoming module so I spent a couple weeks reading reviews and bought the Texas Instruments BA II Plus. Seems like a good one so far but I really hope I get some more explanation on how to use it because there are an awful lot of buttons and the exercises don't go into any detail of how to use it. It comes with a 450 page manual but now that I look at it, it also includes the French, Spanish, and Portugese translations so really it's only 115 or so in the English section.

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I also did my first graded submission for my Business Law course. A quiz on the Canadian legal system and contract law. This course is more interesting than I thought and it's really making me think of businesses in a different way. Now I have an assignment to do which is a case study of a man who was offered a high-paying job and then he and his family went out and made several extravagant purchases, only to find out the offer was withdrawn. I have to decide how to interpret each of the situations and figure out who is owed what at the end of the day. Looks like fun.

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I am going on vacation at the end of June and am heading across the country to the city where I am planning to move next year. I found a really good-looking accounting firm in the city that appears to be a great place to work. I sent the owner an email to see if I can stop by for coffee and a chat while I'm in town next month. Hopefully this will be the start of a relationship that could either lead to me working there or finding another place he recommends.

However, since I am going to be away for nearly two weeks, I'm trying to stay ahead on my courses. In the Law course, once I finish that case study assignment, I'm all caught up until I get back but in the Accounting course, I'm only about 3 days ahead of where I'd like to be if I was working straight through. I need to make up about another week this week so I'm not behind when I get back.

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This was a fairly disjointed post but it's been a long time and I really wanted to get something down. I hope to update with how the calculator is working out and how far ahead I got.